Chapter 333: The Indus Valley
"Boom ......"
Gray and yellow rocks stand in the green vegetation sparse Ladakh Mountains, close to the Indus River valley side of the Northern Silk Road pack horse road, the sunset has set in the west near dusk in the light and shadow, the horse's hooves are fierce and the wind is fierce, a line of nine riders ride the northern Tibetan horses of different fur colors, not slow to ride on the ancient pack horse road gravel road, the northern Tibetan horse hooves kick the flying gravel, from time to time roll down to the right a few meters away from the steep at least a few hundred meters high of the Indus Valley valley bottom. {We don't write novels, we're just web text porters-●⌒,
However, these riders did not care about this, and under the leadership of a middle-aged Tibetan man riding a red horse, wearing a leather Tibetan robe and a fur felt hat, the remaining eight horsemen walked through the inaccessible riverside steep pack horse road at a slow speed, and the speed of travel can be said to be very fast, which shows that these riders are good at riding.
The leader of the nine horsemen was the Tibetan Han Gesang, who opened a mule and horse shop and hotel in the small town of Tianzhu Temple, followed by Master Mu Jiangcuo and Uncle Kong Kang Ding, followed by Yang Yifan's sister paper and Yangniu Anna, followed by Zhuge Hanyu, Sima Yuru and Liu Xiaoyang, and Song Xiaoshuang, who fell last.
"After crossing the mountain pass in front of you, stop and rest for fifteen minutes!"
Zhuge Hanyu, who was slightly chubby and had short black hair, faintly highlighted the strong meaning on his body, holding the reins in his hand and gently shaking the horse under the imperial envoy followed closely behind Anna, Zhuge Hanyu saw that he was about to cross a mountain pass, and shouted decisively in the sound of horses' hooves.
Hearing Zhuge Hanyu say this, the Tibetan Han Gesang who led the ride raised one hand above his head and shook a few times, the speed of riding gradually slowed down, and the eight horses following behind also slowed down the speed of riding. The horses of the imperial envoy galloped at a gallop, and the horses could not bear it at all, after all, this is a plateau mountain range with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters.
Twenty minutes later, a group of nine horsemen trotted up the mountain pass, the altitude of the mountain pass has risen to more than 4,000 meters, and a short rest is beneficial for both men and horses.
Everyone got off their horses and drank water and ate some food to replenish their bodies, and let the horses go to the weedy slopes beside the road to eat grass and recover some bodies. As soon as he whistles, the well-trained horses will immediately return to the pack horse track.
The ridgeline on both sides of the pass is relatively gentle, and the line of sight is excellent for looking into the distance, and if it is equipped with a telescope with high precision, it can carry out more detailed reconnaissance of the Ladakh Mountains on both sides of the pass.
At this time, Anna was doing just that, leaning against a large gray rock half a person high with a blank face, holding small binoculars to check whether there were any anomalies in the mountains and river valleys in the nearby area.
Whenever there is a break in cycling, there is always a person with a military-grade telescope to search and reconnoiter the nearby area. It is still in the Kashmir region, dozens of kilometers away from the actual control line between China and India, and it belongs to the core area of the actual control area of the Indian side. To be on the safe side, caution is necessary.
"From the direction of the small town of Tianzhu Temple, a team of pack horses came from a distance of 4,500 meters, with 25 pack horses and 30 donkeys. It's a big pack horse team......"
Anna soon noticed that something new was happening, and instead of putting down the binoculars, she spoke in a cold tone, informing her of what she had seen through the binoculars.
People who are drinking water and eating some food. They all slowed down the pace of eating food, which was indeed a surprising situation, and even Gesang frowned slightly, feeling that it was not normal for a large team of pack horses to appear at this time.
Because since the Indian border police force recently blocked a number of so-called border lines that actually control the zhì line (the Sino-Indian border has not been surveyed as a real border line, and most border areas follow the traditional custom line control area), the number of pack horse teams on the ancient pack horse road has been greatly reduced, and most of the border trade is barter trade, and the items involve fur products, tea, salt, silver utensils, household utensils and other goods that can be stored for a long time. Most pack horse caravans would rather wait for the border checkpoint to be lifted than take a long detour over the mountains to get to and from the border area.
Gesang had long known that these people had an extraordinary background, and there were two masters from different sects in the team, and they were not going to Leh for tourism at all, but for other secret matters.
For Anna and the others who seem to be extremely cautious and cautious, the well-informed old fritter Gesang doesn't care too much, as long as it doesn't affect his livelihood, it will be, and now when he hears the fair-skinned Anna say that there is a situation, Gesang immediately became vigilant and secretly slandered himself, there won't really be an accident, right?
"I'll give you air-dried mutton, and I'll take a look at the pack horses."
After Sima Yuru squirmed at the corners of her mouth and chewed and ate a piece of air-dried mutton, she slowly walked to Anna's side and whispered while handing Anna a piece of black and red air-dried mutton.
Anna turned around and handed the binoculars to Sima Yuru, took the piece of air-dried mutton and stuffed it into the corner of her mouth and chewed it, her bright silver eyes glanced at Song Xiaoshuang, who was sitting on the sparse grassy slope next to the road and eating air-dried mutton, seeing Song Xiaoshuang's expression as usual, Anna was a little relieved, Song Xiaoshuang's intuition of the perception of unknown dangers did not feel that there was danger approaching, and Anna felt that even if there was a problem with this pack horse team, the threat to the team members of the Heterogeneous Investigation Committee was not great.
Who knew that as soon as Anna thought about it, she saw Song Xiaoshuang jump up from the ground like a spring, quickly walked to Sima Yuru's side, patted Sima Yuru who was holding the telescope on the shoulder, Sima Yuru understood in seconds, and after handing the telescope to Song Xiaoshuang, she looked at Song Xiaoshuang with a faint puzzled look on her pretty face, she had just taken the telescope from Anna's hand and had not conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the pack horse team close to four kilometers away, Song Xiaoshuang arrived at her side, could it be that Song Xiaoshuang felt that there was danger approaching, Is the danger from the pack horses or something else?
Song Xiaoshuang's behavior aroused the great attention of everyone in the Heterogeneous Commission, Zhuge Hanyu, Yang Yifan, and Liu Xiaoyang simply didn't even eat the air-dried mutton in their hands, just waiting for Song Xiaoshuang to say something, Master Mu Jiangcuo and Uncle Kong Dare Ding glanced at each other, Uncle Kong Kang Ding's eyes flashed, and gestured to Gesang to put away a few horses from northern Tibet, Gesang understood in seconds, because the horses did not go far. It's easy to put them together now, without even having to whistle.
At a distance of nearly four kilometers, it is impossible to directly investigate the detailed movements of the pack horse team with human eyes, and there is no one in the team who can bring the long-distance scenery closer to the person with similar skills, it is more convenient to observe through the binoculars, just when Gesang gathered the horses grazing near the grassy slope at a speed, Song Xiaoshuang's calm and cold words had already sounded in everyone's ears.
"Nearly a kilometre behind the pack horse team, there is also a group of more than a dozen backpackers dressed as walkers, all of whom are athletic and skilled players. Among them, there are Asians, Europeans and Americans, and the travel backpacks are bulging, and the two teams add up to nearly half a company...... Xiao Ru, immediately contact Lao Zhao and ask him about the situation in the border area in the last twenty-four hours, if my estimate is correct, these people are here for us. It seems that it is still inevitable......"
Hearing Song Xiaoshuang say this, Zhuge Hanyu felt a lot in his heart, knowing that something big might happen.
Unexpectedly, there was a team of people on foot a kilometer behind the pack horse team. It is easy to be ignored in this lofty mountain, and Song Xiaoshuang asked Sima Yuru to directly contact Major Zhao Yimin who was guarding the 101 base (Lao Zhao is Major Zhao Yimin, in order to keep it secret, Song Xiaoshuang will not say that Zhao Yimin is an army soldier in front of Gesang, just called Lao Zhao). Everyone understands what Song Xiaoshuang means at the end of his words, if he really comes to the team of the Heterogeneous Commission, the situation will be very complicated, and Song Xiaoshuang will inevitably say that he doesn't want to kill. But the other party just bumped into him, and he can't be blamed.
Hearing Song Xiaoshuang's order, Sima Yuru, who stayed by his side, walked quickly to the gray-fur northern Tibetan horse that Song Xiaoshuang was riding. Quickly untied the huge backpack from the back of the saddle, unzipped the backpack and took out a light alloy suitcase like a laptop from the backpack, and gently placed it on a one-meter-tall stone on the side of the road.
Sima Yuru pulled out a one-foot-long antenna from the side of the suitcase, adjusted the angle of the antenna, and pressed a button on the side of the suitcase, after a slight unlocking sound, the upper cover of the suitcase was turned up, and after a faint fluorescent flash, an LCD screen was lit up on the inside of the upper cover, which is a handheld satellite ground station equipment with a delicate design, which can share information in real time with the personnel left behind in the 101 supply base through the guò satellite number link.
Sima Yuru has the experience of a dormant intelligence officer in the former military intelligence system, of course, he is extremely good, he is calm and not flustered when operating the satellite ground station equipment, and the fingers of both hands are operated on the keyboard of the handheld satellite ground station equipment, and after many correct password checks, the progress bar dialog box is displayed on the LCD screen, and the progress bar disappears after the progress bar scrolls for a few seconds, and a multi-select dialog box appears on the LCD screen.
Sima Yuru clicked twice on the keyboard and selected an option for ultra-long-range video call, and after a few seconds, the background of the screen was already displayed as the scene of the intelligence information control room inside the 101 supply base, and Major Zhao Yimin, who had a resolute face with the rank of army major on his collar badge, appeared in the middle of the video call window.
After seeing the real-time video footage of Major Zhao Yimin, Sima Yuru took out a small headset with a wire from the corner of the keyboard, stuffed it into the ear canal of her ear, pressed the confidential communication call button, tapped the keyboard with both hands, and typed a few concise lines of words and sent it over.
Major Zhao Yimin, who was staying at the 101 base, had already been at the moment when the real-time video communication was connected, and Tong Guò held several hidden cameras built into the satellite ground station equipment without leaving dead ends, and noticed that the location where Sima Yuru and the others were staying was in a mountain pass in the Ladakh Mountains. After Sima Yuru used the real-time short message transmitted by the Beidou satellite, Major Zhao Yimin already understood what intelligence support the team of the Heterogeneous Investigation Committee needed.
Because Sima Yuru was wearing a small headset, he didn't speak at all and talked to Major Zhao Yimin by text message entry, Gesang didn't know what Sima Yuru was doing, but Gesang knew clearly that it was better not to know some things, otherwise there would be big trouble.
In less than two minutes, Sima Yuru had already put away the headset and turned off the handheld satellite ground station equipment, stuffed it into the backpack, put the backpack on his back and fastened the belt, Sima Yuru's behavior had already shown that the situation was urgent, and there was a volume of scripture books and a scanner that scanned the contents of four volumes of scripture classics, and it was important that it could not be left on horseback.
Almost at the same moment, everyone took off the small backpack on the horse's back and carried it on their backs, and in the small backpack on the back of Master Mu Gangcuo contained dozens of drawings of specific scriptures and classics that he and Uncle Kong Kang Ding had painstakingly drawn from a Tibetan Buddhist monastery two kilometers away from Leh.
"The situation has been confirmed, the border checkpoint is still in a state of blockade, Lao Zhao sent the exact news, after noon today, thirty kilometers away from an Indian military base, a Soviet-style high-prototype general helicopter landed on the special helipad of the military base, and then an hour, a group of more than a dozen backpackers began to appear on the packhorse road The image was recorded, as for the larger packhorse team, it was the afternoon before yesterday from the Tianzhu Temple town The whole team set off, and it was a few detours to the Tianzhu Temple town, The pack horse team that was about to rush to Leh converged and formed, but there were all kinds of indications that the members of the pack horse team were no longer the original pack horse members......
Sima Yuru spoke very fast and spoke in a crisp voice, but the sentence at the end of the words made Gesang's face change greatly, and he muttered to himself in his heart: It's terrible, it can kill dozens of people in several packhorse teams almost without leaving a trace, either professional mercenaries or the top killer team of the killer group, dozens of people are gone, damn bastards, the Buddha will not spare these innocent bastards!
Just when Gesang's face changed drastically, knowing that it was difficult for even himself to stay out of the matter, a drone with a camouflaged color paint and a wingspan of nearly ten meters under a single wing layout flew obliquely from the airspace at a height of thousands of meters above everyone's heads almost silently (the actual altitude of the drone flight was at least 5,000 meters, and the altitude of the mountain mouth had reached 4,000 meters).
Zhuge Hanyu took the telescope from Song Xiao's hands and chased the flying drone to take a closer look, his face changed slightly in an instant, and he shouted quickly: "Built-in bomb bay attack drone, all-electric drive, we are in trouble......"
(To be continued.) )